Sven Laux : Microscopy [KSR034]

“Whoever said ‘good things come in small packages’ must have been talking about Sven Laux’s microcomposition. A leader in this new wave of music, Laux’s is a particular breed of minimal that you have to think about to truly understand. Listen at a distance, and it’s the kind of skittering beats that have earned Laux titles like ‘micro symphonist’. Listen closely, and you can hear every intricate cog turning. Ever a lover of the obscure and the weird, Laux swings from animated min tech to moments of languid ambience with ease, as evidenced in his latest effort, KSR034. The five-track release under Klangscheiben Records pairs peculiar samplings and interjections with those signature clicks, beeps, and small sounds. Micro symphony, indeed.”

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Format: 5 x File, EP, MP3/320 kbps, FLAC, ALAC
Released: 26 Jan 2014
Style: Microhouse, Minimal

Kraut Sounds : Deep Sky EP [adpt015]

Kraut Sounds lives the night. Perhaps, it’s his natural behaviour. He moves comfortably between the degenerate nightlife and the low light of the dawn. Sparkles and shades.

Blue Sphere has something of those 20th century seedy and beautiful parties, with piano musical notes and flamboyant playboys that have just walked through Cannes. While somebody looks into a future like a great unknowing person who does not even ask permission to leave the table. Like a weird party made of cocktails and black caviare.

The contemporary classicism. Sea of Fog is irrationally animal. A deep-seated and motherly partial structure made of all these mechanisms that have led us to dream and understand. Water and night. Shifting Winds are a bunch of machines stretching out their regular tendency to change life. A little controlled detonation. An absence.

All these moments when everything changes its direction like a pack of cards used for the first time, only to realize that our own inertia does not work properly.

With an incomplete delirium in grey fields of tuberculosis hospitals. Everyone coexists with a blooming factory which will change the face of the Earth. Between a Berliner and a Londoner. In the middle of the social change, in the very heart of the set to music Western world. Walk on Air is the crunch of the moisture, the unbelievable need to connect with another human being through the warmest machines and cold hearts by frosts of our past.

To go anyway, to close a certain circle never opened. To look behind and feel the air like a heavy riddle, difficult to change. To float between dogmas and feel that some musical forms rub a visionary communication of something that has not come yet. A Victorian and asexual pleasure consist of being a little less basically. Kraut Sounds practises the night.”

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Format: 6 x File, EP, MP3/320 kbps, FLAC
Released: 2 Feb 2014
Style: Dub, Downtempo, Ambient, Dub Techno

kapsuul : reksik/jaunt [self released]

“Please take a listen to my tracks – minimalist drum & bass”

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Format: 2 x File, EP, MP3/320 kbps, FLAC, ALAC
Released: 13 Jan 2014
Style: Drum and Bass

Dj DeepWarmth : It Happened [CFM052]

Dj DeepWarmth shows up on the label with our first release of anything close to House music. You might know Dj DeepWarmth better as DeepWarmth and this is a way to show that House music has a place in his style of music. Two Minimal House tracks are featured, and then 3 artists take over remixing duties from the likes of D’Bug’D, Substak and Zwei Kreise.”

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Format: 5 x File, EP, MP3/320 kbps, FLAC, ALAC
Released: 2 Feb 2014
Style: Deep House, Ambient, Drone, Experimental

Frank Wilke / Andrè D. : Vertical Theory [LBN024]

Vertical Theory is the joint work of two musicians, possessed of free improvised music. The music came over the distance of about 1.26843e-10 ly in their head mostly first at nocturnal walks in such diverse regions of Europe as the French Maritime Alps on the one hand and the West German Ruhr area on the other.”

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Format: 6 x File, EP, MP3/320 kbps, FLAC, ALAC
Released: 31 Jan 2014
Style: Jazz

6DEL : Old Roots EP [BTNL006]

“We have a new release for all lovers of techno.”

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Format: 3 x File, EP, MP3/320 kbps, FLAC, ALAC
Released: 29 Jan 2014
Style: Techno, Detroit Techno

bleupulp – kote ordinatè mwen [pertin_48]

Bleupulp‘s kote ordinatè mwen is available for free, now.

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Format: 5 x File, EP, MP3/320 kbps, FLAC, ALAC
Released: 7 Nov 2012
Style: Dub Techno, Deep House, Minimal

Axs : Midnight Secrets [BC25C]

“For the third and final installment of his Secrets series, Axs gives RP Midnight Secrets. Perhaps alluding to the feeling one gets after being awake for far too long, Midnight Secrets is probably the weirdest and most experimental of the three volumes (and admittedly Axs’ favorite as well). Where Rosewood established the roots of the Axs canon, and Evergreen painted vivid landscapes with that exposition, Midnight succeeds in pulling the Axs sound further forward, with obtuse synth gardens like ‘Nightshade’ (a track that could easily fit into the stark sound-art of Raster-Noton or even some of Mika Vainio’s records) and the house-inflected piano and upright bass dub of ‘Shift Anomaly’ (which recalls producers like Terre Thaemlitz and Jeff Mills). ‘Swamp Politics’ features a wobbly squarewave lead and aching pad that sort of reminds us of a dubbier version of Autechre’s Amber era, and ‘Static Space’ feels loose and shaky, as if the foundations of the rhythm itself are pulling apart as the track moves forward. Closing with the bright and spacious ‘Endloop’, Axs seems to say that even after three extensive archive releases, he still has a lot of sonic exploration to do. Sharing secrets has never felt so good, and we’re already looking forward to the next aural excursion that awaits our ears from Axs.”

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Format: 8 x File, Album, MP3/320 kbps, FLAC, ALAC
Released: 17 Jan 2014
Style: Dub Techno, Deep House, Ambient

Various Artists : In Woods They Dwell [ESR001]

The first release of Electrosphere Radio & Records is a collection of 12 finest dub techno tracks.

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Format: 12 x File, Compilation, MP3/320 kbps
Released: 24 Jan 2014
Style: Dub Techno

Matthias Springer : Netaudio Files 002 [self released]

“The 2nd part of some of my latest netaudio releases from different Netlabels. Licensed under CC.”

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Format: 9 x File, Compilation, MP3/320 kbps, FLAC, ALAC
Released: 22 Jan 2014
Style: Dub Techno, Tech House, Deep House